Humanity Quotes by Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he…

— Victor Hugo

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

— Victor Hugo

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

— Victor Hugo

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

— Victor Hugo

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

— Victor Hugo

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race

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“The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome…

— Victor Hugo

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -…

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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is…

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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,…

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— Victor Hugo

“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is…

— Victor Hugo

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…

— Victor Hugo

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the…

— Victor Hugo

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said…

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“When the nettle is young, the leaves make excellent greens; when it grows old it has filaments and fibers like hemp and…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He…

— Victor Hugo

“Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness…

— Victor Hugo